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The core question, tim, the reason why i mentioned i don't look at this as just a media segment. we don't do a ton of anniversary segments about, i don't know, cbs' news division or whatever. the question to you is, is today's republican party different because of the existence of the company fox news? >> look, i think that there's no doubt that's the case, ari. in some ways fox is a reflection of the audience in addition to fox being a driver of the audience. i think both of those things can be happening at the same time. i think if you look at the evolution of fox over the last quarter centu...

Moderate democrats. and we'd all beg him, dad, please don't send us these emails. and then my mother started researching. and she started finally sending him saying this isn't true. here's the proof. you know, what's your source? but it got really bad in the family and eventually we had to block him and not accept his emails. it was really hard trying to avoid arguments. he'd pick me up at the toms river bus station in new jersey and he'd have rush limbaugh blasting, as if like you've got to hear him. he just was always trying to convert us, like -- it was like a religious -- >> he was bumping...

Might be able to provide on issues. what i got back from them was a lot of the same desire for the conspiracy mongering that you were hearing on the prime time shows. and so i think what you've seen over time from fox is this kind of blurring of that, where people are getting conspiratorial information in a very, if you will, straight news type package. and i do think that has an impact on people. i think that it makes people feel more comfortable about believing these types of conspiracies. >> yeah. tim and jen, thank you both so much for joining us, digging into these thoughts. i want to sha...

Politically partisan program as if it's true will really set you back. it seems that even though very practiced consumers might have a good sense of the difference, the act of getting people in suits and what looks like a newsroom or what looks like a news division continues to give a level of deference that they're not entitled to if they're just putting out false information. again, i mention that it's not criticism, it's for the well-being of at-risk people who might be getting their covid information from fox, tim. >> look, i think the packaging matters a great deal. they always had this i...

And i think that that really did have an impact on their audience that primed them for donald trump. they did not any more see the democrats as their fellow americans that they disagreed with on issues, they began to see their fellow americans as the enemy. so when donald trump starts using this dehumanizing language, i think that that resonated in a way that it might not have in a decade or two prior as much as the audience had been listening to fox. and i think that is really the change that we've seen over the last quarter century and the evolution of both fox and the party. >> tim, when yo...